1844 in architecture

Buildings completed • June 12 – Abingdon Road railway station near Culham on the line to Oxford in England, designed by I. K. Brunel. • August 21 – St Mary's Church, Newcastle upon Tyne (Roman Catholic, later Cathedral) in England, designed by Augustus Pugin. • August 27 – St Barnabas Church, Nottingham (Roman Catholic, later Cathedral) in England, designed by Augustus Pugin. • October – The Grange, Ramsgate (house), designed for himself by Augustus Pugin. • Autumn – The Scott Monument in Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by George Meikle Kemp. • New buildings for Marischal College, Aberdeen, Scotland, designed by Archibald Simpson. • Bell tower of Dormition Cathedral, Kharkiv, Ukraine. • Berkshire County Gaol, Reading, England, designed by George Gilbert Scott with William Bonython Moffatt. • Berry Hill, near Halifax, Virginia. ==Events==

• July 27 – Vang Stave Church, relocated from Vang Municipality (in Oppland, Norway) to Brückenberg, Silesia, is reconsecrated. • Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and Jean-Baptiste Lassus win a competition for the restoration of the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris. ==Awards==

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Prosper Desbuisson. ==Births==

• January 3 – Hermann Eggert, German architect (died 1920) • June 23 – Émile Bénard, French architect and painter (died 1929) • July 3 – Dankmar Adler, German-born American architect (died 1900) ==Deaths==

• March 6 – George Meikle Kemp, designer of the Scott Monument in Edinburgh (born 1795; drowned). • April 15 – Charles Bulfinch, first native-born American to practice architecture as a profession (born 1763) ==References==